Swearing. Cursing. Effin’ and jeffin’. In my increasingly hazy memories of middle school, I cannot recall that us students, as awful as we were, were just permitted to go about dropping the F-bomb in the middle of class. The “f” word and the “s” word (we didn’t yet know about the “c” word) were carved [...]
I find that the time spent in-between classes proves to be the most educational – for me, that is. Here are two things I have learned about Korea today: 1)THE UNTOUCHABLES. My 1st grade pets, Tom and Ray, usually come to visit me in the morning, since their bus drops them off insanely early. For [...]
Today sure was shaping up to be a disaster. The powerpoint Jeopardy game I’d spent several hours on last night had some seriously insoluble glitches that only revealed themselves after I’d finished the whole thing*. I’d stayed up far later than I’d intended to, and I got up early to try and manage this problem, [...]
Back in the States, it’s kind of cool to be considered an “outcast” or an “outsider.” Not really, as the truly inept nerds, dorks, and geeks aren’t envied. But as anyone who has ever watched an American movie marketed to teenagers knows, the main actors don’t play the “popular” girls or guys; they play the [...]
